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### 1.3.1 Organization

In general, each major section is organized into the following subsections:

1. Introduction

2. Protocol Walk-Through -- considers the protocol specification documents section-by-section, correcting errors, stating requirements that may be ambiguous or ill-defined, and providing further clarification or explanation.

3. Specific Issues -- discusses protocol design and implementation issues that were not included in the walk- through.

4. Interfaces -- discusses the service interface to the next higher layer.

5. Summary -- contains a summary of the requirements of the section.

Under many of the individual topics in this document, there is parenthetical material labeled "DISCUSSION" or "IMPLEMENTATION". This material is intended to give clarification and explanation of the preceding requirements text. It also includes some suggestions on possible future directions or developments. The implementation material contains suggested approaches that an implementor may want to consider.

The summary sections are intended to be guides and indexes to the text, but are necessarily cryptic and incomplete. The summaries should never be used or referenced separately from the complete RFC.

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